Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara

Book Description

Available for the first time in paperback, "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara" reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.

Explores a key period in modern art, and highlights some 30 artists who collaborated with the poet Frank O'Hara to produce 'poem-paintings'. Featuring such works as Jasper Johns's "In Memory of My Feelings" and Grace Hartigan's "Oranges", this book examines the relationship between art and poetry at a crucial moment in American art history.

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

Author Biography - Frank O'Hara

Donald Allen (1912-2004) was Director of Grey Fox Press. Among the literary collections he has edited are The Postmoderns, The Poetics of the New American Poetry, and The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca; he is the translator of Four Plays of Eugene Ionesco.

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